{"id":48575,"date":"2016-10-12T23:17:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T22:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/?p=48575"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:13:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T12:13:41","slug":"peoples-champion-finalist-2016-spacechips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/peoples-champion-finalist-2016-spacechips\/","title":{"rendered":"People\u2019s Champion finalist 2016: Spacechips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Start-up name: <\/strong>Spacechips<br>\n<strong>Founder: <\/strong>Dr Rajan Bedi<br>\n<strong>Started in: <\/strong>2014<br>\n<strong>Based in: <\/strong>Hertfordshire<strong><br>\n<\/strong><strong>Business description: <\/strong>Space-electronics design consultancy services<\/p>\n<h3>Shortlisted category:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/export-business-of-the-year-2016-meet-the-finalists\/\">Export Business of the Year<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The Spacechips story:<\/h3>\n<p>Spacechips offers space-electronics design consultancy services to manufacturers of satellites and spacecraft around the world.&nbsp;Whilst that might sound like enough for the fledgling start-up to be getting on with, that&rsquo;s just one arm of the business&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>Spacechips also provides global training courses in space electronics to help customers make better informed technology decisions &ndash; all its courses for 2017 are already sold out &ndash; and provides business strategy, product roadmap, technical marketing and space-market trend advice to suppliers of space-grade microchips.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it has invented a disruptive satellite-transponder product, which has the potential to develop satellites that are 25% lighter, 40% less power consuming, 20% less expensive and 40% smaller. The product is currently in testing stage before it reaches the market.<\/p>\n<p>The man in control of the thrusters is founder Dr. Rajan Bedi. Formerly head of mixed-signal design group at Astrium Satellites for 12 years, it&rsquo;s clear Bedi has the technical chops to guide this business to galactic heights.<\/p>\n<h3>Why Spacechips made our shortlist:<\/h3>\n<p>This is one start-up that clearly aiming for the stars. Offering a unique mix of design consultancy, space electronics training and pioneering products, Spacechips is on a mission to conquer the final frontier.<\/p>\n<h3>Where to find out more about Spacechips:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Website: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacechips.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.spacechips.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start-up name: Spacechips Founder: Dr Rajan Bedi Started in: 2014 Based in: Hertfordshire Business description: Space-electronics design consultancy services Shortlisted category: Export Business of the Year The Spacechips story: Spacechips offers space-electronics design consultancy services to manufacturers of satellites and spacecraft around the world.&nbsp;Whilst that might sound like enough for the fledgling start-up to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63583,"featured_media":48813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finalists-2016"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>People\u2019s Champion finalist 2016: Spacechips - 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